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Windows 7: Default Windows 7 Start Menu Power Button Action

Whatever I try (both ways as advise here) to make the default at the Start Button (Sleep/Restart/Shutdown etc.) it doesn't stick, stay on Shutdown. Annoying. It's like the old days of Mircrosoft Word when it was new: its settings usually failed to stick, and that went on for nearly a decade.

Default Windows 7 Start Menu Power Button Action

Power Button - Start MenuHow to Change the Default Windows 7 Start Menu Power Button Action
This will show you how to change the Windows 7 Start Menu power button default action for the current user account or all user accounts to be either Switch User, Log Off, Lock, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, or Shutdown when clicked...

Tutorials

Cannot change Power Option Button in Start MenuI am using windows 7 sp1 x64. I am not able to change my power option button action in start menu. It is just disables and i am not able to change it to anything.
Please help me fix this.
http://i.imgur.com/ctutf92.png

General Discussion

Start menu power buttonIn the Start Menu the only two choices in the power button options are 'Log off' and 'Lock'. I reset the start button options to default and restarted the computer by powering it off but there is no change. I lost the 'Shut Down'. 'Restart' and 'Switch User' options. How do I fix this other...

Start Menu Power button option is missingI have just upgrated from XP to Win 7 Home Premium. I'm missing the option to close my pc down with hybernation to get at much faster close down and restart.
Due to I can not get the "hybernation" menu option into the start menu.
I open "Power Option" click on "Change Advanced power Settings"...

Performance & Maintenance

Tweaking the Power Button Icon in Start MenuHello, I hope you are well.
I think that the Power Button in the Start Menu, where users can choose for it to Lock, Sleep, Hibernate, and Shutdown their computers, is very useful. I'd like to somehow tweak it even further, but am not sure if this is even remotely possible.
Is there any way I...